if you import them to the Library, and want to call them with
AS you would need to convert them to MC and yes you would have to
enter the identifiers manually.

However, there are several alternatives. I would suggest,
using a MoveClipLoader class method to load the images to a
container MC. This way you could keep the images anywhere and pull
them in when needed.

Thanks for the reply, so you mean hold all images externally
and load them
as needed?

Makes sense

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> if you import them to the Library, and want to call them
with AS you would
> need
> to convert them to MC and yes you would have to enter
the identifiers
> manually.
>
> However, there are several alternatives. I would
suggest, using a
> MoveClipLoader class method to load the images to a
container MC. This
> way you
> could keep the images anywhere and pull them in when
needed.
>
> What are you going to be doing with them?
>

yes exactly. You can load any jpg (or other formats) from a
directory, and set up a MovieClipLoader to bring them in (or a few
other methods) but you can do this without a problem, and it will
keep the file size way down, so that it will load quickly. But this
does depend on what your going to do with the images, if it's just
a gallery or something than this is definitely the way to go. If
your going to animate the images in some way, this might be more
difficult but still very possible.